FR #688 | Movie | Drama | Italy | Italian, English
Director
Vittorio De Sica
Writer
Sergio Amidei, Adolfo Franci, Cesare Giulio Viola
Cast
Rinaldo Smordoni, Franco Interlenghi, Annielo Mele
Plot
Two shoeshine boys in postwar Rome, Italy save up to buy a horse, but their involvement as dupes in a burglary lands them in juvenile prison; the experience take a devastating toll on their friendship.
FR #702 | Movie | Drama, War | Italy | Italian, English
Director
Roberto Rossellini
Writer
Sergio Amidei, Federico Fellini, Klaus Mann
Cast
Carmela Sazio, Gar Moore, William Tubbs
Plot
American military personnel interact warily with a variety of Italian locals over a year and a half in the push north during the Italian Campaign of WWII as German forces make their retreat.
FR #4405 | Movie | Drama | Italy, USA | English, Italian
Director
Roberto Rossellini
Writer
Roberto Rossellini, Sergio Amidei, Gian Paolo Callegari
Cast
Ingrid Bergman, Mario Vitale, Renzo Cesana
Plot
Karin, a young woman from the Baltic countries, marries fisherman Antonio to escape from a prison camp. But she cannot get used to the tough life in Antonio's volcano-threatened village, Stromboli.
FR #13428 | Movie | Drama | Italy, Germany | German
Director
Roberto Rossellini
Writer
Stefan Zweig, Sergio Amidei, Roberto Rossellini
Cast
Ingrid Bergman, Mathias Wieman, Renate Mannhardt
Plot
Irene Wagner, the wife of prominent scientist Albert Wagner, finds herself blackmailed about her affair by her lover's jealous ex-girlfriend. The plot, an experiment in causing fear, drives her into a rage.
Aldo Piscitello, a minor government clerk, is forced in 1934 to join the Fascist party. When the war comes, he finds himself able only to talk ineffectually in secret against Mussolini, even as his own son Giovanni is sent into ba...
FR #18868 | Movie | Drama | Italy, France | English
Director
Marco Ferreri
Writer
Marco Ferreri, Sergio Amidei, Charles Bukowski
Cast
Ben Gazzara, Ornella Muti, Susan Tyrrell
Plot
Poet/lecturer Charles Serking awakens from his alcoholic haze long enough to take a bus back to L.A. and plunge into an orgy of drink and sexual depravity.
A demon bestows on a self-righteous working photographer's camera the power to smite from the Earth "evil-doers". Naturally, the indignant photographer turns his new weapon on, one by one, his entire village, beginning with the we...
FR #20681 | Movie | Drama, War | Italy, France | Italian, English
Director
Roberto Rossellini
Writer
Sergio Amidei, Diego Fabbri, Brunello Rondi
Cast
Leo Genn, Giovanna Ralli, Sergey Bondarchuk
Plot
During the Second World War three allied prisoners: a Soviet, an American, and an Englishman, attempt to escape Rome with the help of a young couple who are residents of the city.
Story of an ambitious young doctor through unethical means intend to make a quick career. Now is primary in a luxury clinic where administers the sick with the same cynicism of his young years.
Anna Maria Ferrero, Cosetta Greco, Antonella Lualdi
Plot
In 1925 the young florentine typographer Mario moves to via del Corno to be near his girl-friend Bianca. Here he becomes friends with Maciste, his landlord, and Ugo, anti-fascists both of them. When Campolmi is beaten by the fasci...
FR #24414 | Movie | Comedy, Fantasy | Italy | Italian
Director
Antonio Pietrangeli
Writer
Sergio Amidei, Ennio Flaiano, Antonio Pietrangeli
Cast
Marcello Mastroianni, Belinda Lee, Sandra Milo
Plot
Several ghosts in an ancient palazzo in Rome join together to save their home from destruction. Mastrianni plays several parts and is hilarious. The other actors are great too.
